Clostridium difficile lengthens hospital stays by six days on average
C. difficile is the most common cause of infectious diarrhoea in hospital, and it is estimated that 10% of patients who become infected in hospital will die. Researchers used The Ottawa Hospital Data Warehouse, Canada to analyse data on 136 877 admissions to The Ottawa Hospital between July 1, 2002 and March 31, 2009. A […]
